[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-26 Thread Simon Kellett 
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You can, by adding cate-gory/package-version to
 /etc/portage/package.mask. As long as the package is installed, a copy
 of the ebuild will stay in /var/db/pkg. Portage never forces you to
 upgrade anything.

OK: thanks I did not know this. (I have never tried anything like emerge
world yet, I just update the packages as I need (either bug fixing or
for new functionality): I just noticed the older ebuilds go missing from
/usr/portage).

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[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett 
sebastien Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 When i got all those scripts stabilized, i really wanted to keep
 exactly same version of binaries. After installing a new server, i got
 the surprise not being able to use ecasound-2.3.3, the only version
 available is the 2.4.3.

This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of
*forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be
very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild
(and dependencies) would always be kept.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:18 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote:

 This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of
 *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be
 very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild
 (and dependencies) would always be kept.

You can, by adding cate-gory/package-version
to /etc/portage/package.mask. As long as the package is installed, a copy
of the ebuild will stay in /var/db/pkg. Portage never forces you to
upgrade anything.


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Neil Bothwick

Windoze95 Quote: Why is the Pentium 166 so fast? - Its for booting
faster, if Windows crashed again.


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